to face the wrath of her neighbors in Macondo. The narrative of the grandson, on the other hand, is more preoccupied with the mystery and wonder of death. As with many of his stories, such as Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold, García Márquez introduces a dramatic scene to begin his narrative and then moves backward, rehashing the past that will lead up to the ultimate conclusion. It is discovered within the narrative that the center of all the conflict (the deceased) is a doctor who came to Macondo with a mysterious past and no clear name. The man's only saving grace is a letter of recommendation from the Colonel Aureliano Buendia, one of the main characters of the later One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is this letter that leads the stranger to the family that serves collectively as narrator to the drama that unfolds. List of characters Colonel - Old Colombian Civil War veteran in Macondo. First-person narrator. His unnamed wife died long ago (1898), soon after giving birth to his only child, Isabel. Isabel (Chabela) - Colonel's 30-year-old daughter. First-person narrator. Child - 10-year-old son of Isabel and Martín. First-person narrator. Adelaida - Colonel's second wife, stepmother of Isabel. Doctor - Physician, living at the colonel's house. Remedios Orozco (Meme) - Adelaida's indian maid, Doctor's concubine. Last seen in 1917. Martín - Isabel's husband, profession unknown. Last seen in 1920. Pup, father Ángel - Parish priests in distinct generations. Rebeca, Águeda, Veva García, Solita - Friends of Isabel. Tobías, Abrahan, Gilberto - School friends of the child. Lucrecia - Naked young woman in her bedroom, object of interest of the child and his friends. Ada - Adelaida's maid in 1928. Cataure - One of the colonel's guajiros (indians under his orders). Macondo's mayer A woman and her child - Both unnamed, used to live at the church room, back in the early 1900s. Narrative Techniques In medias res Marquez starts his novella in medias res, that is, “in the middle of things”. This is shown through the opening paragraph that starts off with the description of the banana company landing in Macondo and then immediately goes to the boy’s point of view at the doctor’s wake. Multiple narrators The story changes narrators at many points with an omniscient narrator always being present. It changes from the boy to his mother to